
230 views Download as PDF This post is also available in: Arabic
Seeking a remedy to the historical injustice against women is a moral and legal responsibility which falls upon states, communities, and individuals
Executive Summary
Mona, 17, from the Syrian province of al-Qunaitra, was forced into marriage when she was only 15.
The man who her father forced her to marry was infertile, thirteen years older than her, and had three previous failed marriages. She knew none of this before she married him. Mona recounted to STJ:
“My father said that marriage is to protect women, but he forced me into that marriage for nothing else but to take my dowry.
My father did not tell me the truth about my ex-husband’s social and personal status before marriage.

My marriage lasted only six months, during which I suffered physical and psychological violence from my husband, who then expelled me from his home after forcibly taking the money and the gold I had.
Continue reading “How Violence Against Women is Written into Syrian Laws and Society”













